Steadfast in the Defense of Faith — Essays in Honor of Daniel C. Peterson

Stephen D. & Shirley S. Ricks, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Louis C. Midgley, John W. Welch, Royal Skousen

Richard Bushman, Donald W. Parry, John E. Clark

Thomas G. Alexander, Noel B. Reynolds, Neal Rappleye

George L. Mitton, Michael R. Ash, Ugo A. Perego

Eborn Books & The Interpreter Foundation

<p>Throughout the Bible, understanding the meaning of names of important people and places is often crucial to understanding the message of the ancient authors. In other words, names of people and places serve as "key-words" that can help unlock the intended messages of scripture.Since the Book of Mormon is an ancient record rooted in Old Testament traditions, it is not surprising that similar patterns of wordplay emerge from its pages. Besides their important tole as key-words in scriptural interpretation, the names of people and places may also provide our clearest glimpses into the text that existed on the plates from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. In many instances, the names of important Book of Mormon people and places are directly related to words matching the most-likely Hebrew and Egyptian origins for those names. Textual and contextual clues suggest that this matching was done deliberately in order to enhance literary beauty and as an aid to understanding. In some cases, authorial wordplay can be verified by a close analysis of matching text structures. In others, the wordplay can be verified by using the Bible as a "control" text. A wealth of philological, onomastic, and textual evidence suggests that the Book of Mormon, like the Bible, is the work of ancient authors rather than of a rural nineteenth-century man of limited literary attainments. Knowing more about these names enriches our understanding of the stories that these authors tell.</p>

Name as Key-Word, Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture

Matthew L. Bowen

Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning - The Temple on Mount Zion Series Vol. 4.

Stephen D. Ricks

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

<p>Hugh W. Nibley (1910–2005) was arguably the most brilliant Latter-day Saint scholar of the 20th century, with wide-ranging interests in scripture, history, and social issues. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley comprise nineteen weighty volumes. But he was also one of the most enigmatic observers of the Church. In this volume readers will discover that the personal stories and perspectives behind the scholarship are sometimes even more captivating than his brilliant and witty intellectual breakthroughs.This comprehensive three-part collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on Hugh Nibley as a scholar and a man.Part 1, entitled “Portraits,” contains the first collection of observations—a “spiritual” portrait of Hugh Nibley by his close friend and colleague John W. “Jack” Welch, a description of the physical portrait by Rebecca Everett hanging in the Hugh Nibley Ancient Studies room at Brigham Young University, and a biographical portrait by Hugh himself.Part 2, “Nibley, the Scholar,” contains expanded and updated versions of the almost forgotten audio and video recordings of the BYU Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship lecture series celebrating the centennial of Nibley’s birth in 2010. An additional set of chapters on Nibley’s scholarship rounds out this collection.Part 3, “Nibley, the Man,” includes tributes given by family members and others at Nibley’s funeral service. A series of entertaining personal stories, reminiscences, and folklore accounts concludes the volume.</p>

Hugh Nibley Observed

Hugh Nibley

Richard Bushman

Truman G. Madsen and Stephen D. Ricks

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